Famous quotes containing the word husbands:
“...women should be silent in the churches.... If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 14:34.
“She will keep no fool, sir, till she be married, and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings—the husband’s the bigger.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)